The Fast And Furious Franchise Is Coming To Netflix As An Animated Show
While marvelling at the rather left-field approach to the laws of physics taken in the Fast and Furious films, have you ever thought you might as well be watching an over-the-top cartoon? Well, it may interest you to know that the franchise will be turned into…an over-the-top cartoon.
It’s all thanks to NBCUniversal’s widening deal with Netflix, which has seen numerous shows produced by DreamWorks - a subsidiary of NBCUniversal since 2016 - appear on the streaming service. The latest one will give us a new animated take on the Fast and Furious world, focusing on Dominic Toretto’s teenage cousin Tony. FYI that’s not the one whose car goes faster while on fire and in reverse - that’s Fernando.
The new series will follow Tony as he attempts to infiltrate a shady “elite racing league” at the behest of a secretive government agency. It’s just a rogue submarine or 20-mile runway away from having the perfect F&F plot.
Vin Diesel, Neal Moritz and Chris Morgan will serve as executive producers for the show, which is set for a 2019 debut. The only thing that’s bugging us is the image released with the announcement - it shows two GTA-style knock-off vehicles, suggesting the show may not bother with licensing real cars. Then again, this is just an early teaser image, so the series could end up looking rather different.
Either way, we’ll definitely be watching.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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As if f&f wasnt bad enough already
“Dominic Toretto’s teenage cousin” Everyone read that sentence in Clarkson’s voice.
Oh for f**ks sake. Universal Pictures can sincere go and shove their billions of money and skills at ruining movie franchises up there tight money loving commercialised money-making assholes.
Real licensed cars?
No?
FUUUUUU
1) NO
2) No.
3) As a guy who’s enjoyed most of the FnF movies, no.
4) Matt Robinson Fernando’s car was fitted, as per Cuban custom, with a tractor transmission, which instead of having a separate reverse gear inverts the forward ones, so, if not faster, it was perfectly plausible for it to be just as fast in reverse, and I hope you didn’t count on me not nitpicking on it.
Don’t let this distract you from the fact that Hector is gonna be running 3 Honda Civic’s with spoon engines. On top of that he just came into Harry’s and ordered 3 t66 turbo’s with NOS’s and a Motec System Exhaust
I’d reckon a stock version of that purple Challenger looking knockoff with a windshield faaaar too low would make something interesting to look at. That’s all I have to say
I wonder if it will include a scene like this…
I’m already pissed off enough that they not only kept on making F&Fs after Walker’s death but also because I hate Fast 8 with a burning passion and now this
oh for christ sake.
i wanted F&F to come to netflix but not like this!